Elevator dump



July 3, I923.

l. s. ALTdN ELEVATOR DUMP Filed Sept. 25. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet l v wewfoz JZAL m/v Witness July 3, 1923.

S. ALTON ELEVATOR DUMP Filed Sept. 25 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 avwenfoz A? /44 ro/v Witness Patented July 3, 1923.

ISAAC S. ALTON, OF OXFORD, I KANSAS.

ELEVATOR DUMP.

Application fiIed September 25, 1922. Serial No. 590,502.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that Llsimo S. ALTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at OX- ford, in the county of Sumner and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elevator Dumps; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in dumps and more particularly to one designed primarily for dumping grain at ele vators, one object being to provide a dump having two receiving openings preferably spaced different distances from a wagon or truck hoist, whereby wagons may be dumped by the hoist into one opening and trucks dumped into the other opening, novel provision being made' for discharging the dumped grain or other material into either or both of a pair of receiving chambers, regardless of the opening into which the dumpin is done.

WVith the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, the description being supplemented by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a dump con-- structed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section as indicated by line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings above briefly described, the numeral 1 designates an elevated platform at one end of which I'intend to place a hoisting device (not shown) for dumping wagons and trucks driven onto the platform, 40 this platform being provided with an opening 2 into which wagons may be dumped and an opening 3 more remote from the hoist, to receive the contents of trucks. A pair of chutes 4: incline in opposite directions from the openings 2 and 3 and are preferably narrowed toward their lower ends by being. provided with oblique side boards 5 at their adjacent sides, whereby the lower ends of the chutes may cross each other to discharge at opposite sides of a .verticalpartition 6, into a pair of receiving chambers 7.

The upper end of each trough L is provided in its bottom with an opening 8 and a pair of removable closures 9 are provided for the two openings, said closures resting upon the bottoms of the troughs and being held against downward sliding by suitable cleats 10 secured to said bottoms. When it is intended that the grain or the like shall slide throughout the length of one trough or the other, its closure 9 remains in the full line position shown in Fig. 2. However, if either trough or chute is to discharge I into the receiving chamber 7 ordinarily fed by the other chute, its closure 9 is removed and positioned across the chute, at the lower edge of its opening 8, as shown byv dotted lines in Fig. 2. In this position, the upper portion of the closure 9 may well rest against one edge wall of the openings 2 01'3', while its lower end is supported by the bottom of the chute and bears against the upper'edge of the cleat 10. Thus, instead of the material sliding throughout the length of the chute, it will merely fall through the opening 8 thereof.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that a simple arrangement has been provided whereby either wagons or trucks may be readily dumped and whereby the con tents of either may be distributed as required in the two receiving chambers 7.

As excellent results may be obtained from the details disclosed, they are preferably followed, but within the scope of the invention as claimed, numerous minor changes may of course be made.

I claim: Y v

1. A distributing dump comprising a platform having spaced openings, a partition beneath said platform andbetween said openings, chutes extending from said openings in opposite directions andextending across said partition for depositing material upon the opposite sides of the partition, each chute having an opening beneath the opening in the platform from which the chute extends, and a cover movable from a lowered position closing the openlng to an elevated position forming a barrier extend ing across the chute for directing material through the opening in the chute. I 2. The structure of claim 1 having each chute provided with means for engaging the opposite directions and having their lower lower end of the cover for the opening in portions tapered and extending side by side 10 the chute and supporting the cover. in overlapping relation across said partii 3. A distributing dump comprising 21 tion.

5 platform having spaced openings positioned In testimony whereof I have hereunto afi opposite each other, a partition beneath fixed my signature. said platform and between said openings,

and chutes extending from said openings in ISAAC S. ALTON. 

